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Henry Rollins was two years away from joining Black Flag, the Dead Kennedys hadn’t released their first album yet, and punk rock in the U.S. was largely ignored by the masses. In this musical primordial ooze of 1979, The Chronicle sent a reporter and a

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Taquila Mockingbird developed a following in LA with her various bands (punk and jazz) beginning in 1977, and she became a fixture on the LA punk scene when, from 1980-1984, she booked acts as Do Monkey Productions with Richard Skidmore for New Wave Theat

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These acts vary greatly in their use of power chords and shouting style, but they prove that there’s a subgenre for everyone in this diverse scene that’s been growing for the last 40 years and as strong as ever.

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'This Mess is a Place' has mostly silenced anyone who questioned Tacocat’s credibility. Produced by Erik Blood, the record is a solid evolution of their rising talent and proof that faking it until making it totally works.

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Sara Romweber, the powerhouse drummer who held the beat in the first lineup of jangle-pop heroes Let's Active and who went on to play in Snatches of Pink and, later, with her brother Dexter Romweber, has died of cancer, according to music journalist

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Everyone in the Long Beach-based band—Daniel Michicoff on bass, Phil Shaheen on drums and Chad Wachtel on guitar—has been playing music in one form or another for half their lives, but the trio didn’t form Tijuana Panthers until the mid-2000s.